Resources
Official guide and resource list, compiled by Wesleyan librarians, for academic research in Classics.
Language Learning Tools
- Mobile app for practicing conjugations with all the Greek verbs in Hansen & Quinn. (Also includes a comprehensive list of all conjugated verb forms.)
- For learning Latin word endings. You can quiz yourself on noun, verb, and adjective endings with vocabulary featured in most beginner courses.
- Guided video introduction to Ancient Greek by Prof. Leonard Muellner and Belisi Gillespie. Corresponds to the units in Hansen & Quinn.
Dictionaries & Lexica
- Exhaustive compilation of digitized Greek and Latin lexica, grammars, dictionaries, and search tools.
- This online dictionary is different from any other you've ever used. It has been built from the ground up using AJAX technology to allow the fastest, most efficient and most useful user interface.
- User-friendly, digitized version of the Liddell, Scott, and James Greek Lexicon and the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary. Also available as an app for iPhone or Android.
- Search for an English word to find equivalents in ancient Greek. Helpful for prose composition exercises.
Ancient Texts Online
- Digital archive of Latin texts.
- Greek and Latin texts with credible, side-by-side translations.*
- The premier site for all things Greek and, to a lesser extent, Roman.
- English translation of the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia.
- Digitized versions of the entire Greek corpus, with powerful vocabulary tools, word search and statistical functions. Also hosts digital lexica including LSJ and Cunliffe's Homeric dictionary.*
- Considered the largest Latin dictionary in the world, covering all extant Latin texts from antiquity to approximately 600 A.D.
Secondary Scholarship
- Reviews of new and recently published works in all fields of Classical Studies.
- Recent journal articles and books in Classics. Type general search term under "Alle Felder" (All Fields) or specific "Autor" (Author) and hit "Suche Starten" (Start search)."
- Complete bibliographic information for Classics publications from 1959-2003.*
Greek & Roman History
- Practical description of how the various institutions of Athenian democracy actually worked.
- Covering periods between 753 BCE and 476 AD.
- From the Stone Age through the Modern Period.
Ancient Geography
- Uses a digital text of Herodotus’s Histories and web-mapping technologies to investigate the cultural geography of the ancient world through the eyes of one of its first witnesses.
- The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Reconstructs the time, cost, and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity.
- Community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
Art History & Archaeology
- Comprehensive survey of the excavations directed by the American School of Classical Studies.
- Website of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, with sites on all of the Museums, Monuments and Archaeological Sites of Greece.
- Collection of interactive QTVR panoramas for ancient Greek archaeological sites.
- Pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
- A repository, a resource, and a publication outlet for archaeometric data (founded by our own Dr. Kate Birney!)
Women & Gender in the Ancient World
- Resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and their intersections in the ancient Mediterranean world.
- Collection of texts, images, and pedagogical tools for the study of women and gender in ancient Rome.
- Online exhibit exploring aspects of women's lives in ancient Greece.
- Collection of authentic Latin texts that highlight LGBTQIA+ topics.
- International, interactive collaboration between students enrolled in Women in Antiquity courses across North America.
Race & Ethnicity in the Ancient World
- Starter bibliography of scholarship related to race/ethnicity in Greek and Roman antiquity (including some Early Christian and Medieval). Compiled by Rebecca Futo Kennedy.
- Bibliography for historians hitting back at white supremacy. Compiled by Sarah Bond.
Funding & Grants
- Annotated list of funding opportunities, including many for undergraduate students.
- Fellowships and scholarships offered by the SCS.
- Microgrants from $5 to $300, no questions asked, to Classics undergrads who need it.
- Squire Grants Grants for Wesleyan students to cover part of the cost of classics-related summer study, research projects or study abroad programs.
Community
- Supports, connects, mentors, and encourages Asian and Asian American scholars of Classics and the ancient Mediterranean.
- The purpose of the group is to bring together those scholars in the field who are working in various ways on social justice, using Classics.
- Community for studying Africana receptions of ancient Greece & Rome.
- Coalition of queer classicists and allies.
- Advancing the professional goals of Classicists who identify as members of ethnic groups traditionally underrepresented in the field.
- Raising awareness and supporting the study of multiculturalism, race, and ethnicity in classics and classical archaeology at all levels.
- Online scholarly community of teachers and students who share an interest in the ancient Roman world; images, texts, history and many other resources.
- Fosters feminist and gender-informed perspectives–especially those with intersectional and global approaches–in the study and teaching of all aspects of ancient Mediterranean cultures and classical antiquity.
Blogs & Online Publications
- Online journal for scholarly writing about Classics that isn’t formal scholarship.
- Platform where classical scholars, and the public more broadly, can learn about and respond to appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups online.
- Long-running Classics blog.
- Aims to bring you some of the most famous (and also most confounding) quotations from the ancient world.
- An open Classics journal that caters to all levels of knowledge and interest
- A Classics blog that focuses on Classics & current events, issues, and pop culture.